BIOL - 6657 Ecological Methods: Populations (2)

For graduate students of environmental biology. One of two courses on field methods in ecology. Covers basic field techniques, planning of field experiments, collection and analysis of data, and interpretation of result in the study of populations. Topics include the collection and analysis of capture-mark-recapture data, survival analysis, density estimation, analysis and quantification of population dynamics, the effects of predators on insect population dynamics, and the effects of herbivores on plant population dynamics. Equivalent to BIOL-657. Prerequisites: take BIOL-3322, BIOL-3323 and take STAT-4219 or STAT-6219.